In City 18, inside a quiet bar, there were only three people.

The bartender, Li Dongze, and San Yue.

"Is this real alcohol or fake alcohol?" San Yue looked at the amber-colored whiskey in her glass, asking Li Dongze beside her.

Li Dongze was still wearing his meticulously tailored suit and vest, the pocket watch chain hanging on his chest was polished brightly, and the leather shoes were freshly polished.

No matter when or where, this Godfather of the Eternal Society lived a meticulous life.

He looked at the glass and said, "...Fake alcohol."

San Yue looked at Li Dongze unhappily: "You're serving me fake alcohol?"

Li Dongze patiently explained: "The alcohol and tobacco business within the Federation is monopolized, and no one brews good alcohol properly. Unless it's specially supplied to the mansions of various Conglomerates, the quality of the others isn't as good as my fake alcohol. Don't worry, the industries under the Eternal Society are all legitimate brewing manufacturers, we just can't get the brewing license."

San Yue chuckled. Li Dongze rarely said so much. Usually, when he talked a lot, he was a little nervous.

She took a light sip and said calmly, "Indeed not bad, better than the stuff in City 19."

Li Dongze's expression became more natural.

San Yue said, "I'm about to set off again."

Li Dongze frowned slightly: "You just came back, why are you leaving again?"

"This time it happened in the south. The six-eyed crows in the Tribunal are crowing day and night, something big is about to happen," San Yue said. "There's a very strange thing I need to tell you. Shendai Qianchi is dead, but the crows didn't guide us there, which means there's a problem. Of course, I can only tell you this, you must keep it a secret."

Li Dongze said frankly: "According to what you said, he might still be alive. My Boss has wanted to kill him for many years. If he's faking his death, then I must tell the Boss this news."

San Yue shrugged her shoulders while sitting at the bar: "I didn't say he's still alive."

Li Dongze was stunned for a moment: "Huh? What do you mean?"

Could it be that Shendai Qianchi's body was sacrificed to some Forbidden Artifact?

San Yue seemed to guess what Li Dongze was thinking, and said, "Even if he is eventually sacrificed to some Forbidden Artifact, the six-eyed crows would crow before his death, just like Qing Chen also made us run for nothing before. Moreover, throughout the entire Federation, there are only a few Forbidden Artifacts that can sacrifice Metahumans, besides Marionette, the rest are in our hands. Shendai Qianchi's body was not sacrificed, but the information was shielded, even the six-eyed crows couldn't find him."

In fact, the Forbidden Artifacts that the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal controls are like having wall hacks in a game.

As long as you master enough of them, you can deduce some information.

For example, there are a total of four Forbidden Artifacts that can sacrifice Metahumans:

Forbidden Artifact ACE-10, the Scarlet Pen.

This Forbidden Artifact enjoys sacrificing corpses, but what's strange is that such a cruel Forbidden Artifact has the effect of writing blessings...

Sacrificing a corpse allows you to write down a wish, sacrificing ten corpses allows you to write down ten wishes, and the wishes can be stored.

The things the Scarlet Pen can wish for are very small, such as hoping someone will give you a gift, hoping someone can help you wash the dishes, hoping you don't have to work overtime tomorrow...

But these small things are bound to be achieved.

For example, if you live in the wilderness, even if there's no one within 1000 kilometers around you, as long as you make a wish, there will definitely be an unlucky person tomorrow who suddenly comes to this desert for some reason and helps you wash the dishes...

For example, you can wish that someone will treat you to hot pot tomorrow, then even if a flood comes tomorrow, someone will treat you to hot pot.

Years ago, the master of the Scarlet Pen was a Wilderness Hunter.

Once, he fought with Wildlanders and killed the opponent.

This hunter sacrificed the Wildlanders' corpse and then wished that he could have a hot meal tomorrow.

It wasn't that his request was low, but he knew that this thing's ability was just that.

As a result, an accident happened. That night, it suddenly rained heavily, and the river broke its banks, washing him downstream.

This Wilderness Hunter thought that he would definitely not be able to get a hot meal, and whether he could survive was a problem.

But before he could think too much, he saw a speedboat rushing from upstream and pulling him up.

The next morning, the boat owner even cooked him a bowl of hot porridge...

At that time, the Wilderness Hunter suddenly realized that this was the good luck brought by the Scarlet Pen's wish!

The power of rules!

Among the many Forbidden Artifacts today, the Scarlet Pen can be said to be a very useless one. Si Yue usually uses it to wish for hot pot and can't do anything else.

Looking at other Forbidden Artifacts, such as Forbidden Artifact ACE-089, Huntersong. As long as you let it hear you sing, whether you are B-Class or at the ends of the earth, it will have to kill you.

Or Chen Yu's pair of stone lions, the two of them together can kill an A-Class!

Or Qing Xing's mysterious Forbidden Artifact, which can arrange misfortune.

No matter how you look at it, they are better than the Scarlet Pen.

The second Forbidden Artifact that can sacrifice Metahumans' corpses is ACE-107, the Best Lighter in the Village.

Sacrificing a corpse once allows you to use the flame once.

This thing is quite useful. Everything it ignites will turn to ashes, burning the corpse without leaving any residue.

Using it to ignite steel will also evaporate the molten iron.

The flame of this lighter will not spread. Even when burning a corpse, it only burns the corpse and not the clothes.

Someone once wanted to use it to destroy the earth, but he stopped after burning a stone...

Later, someone used it to fight against an A-Class. After a forced close-quarters melee, the owner suddenly used the lighter to light a single hair on the opponent.

In just seconds, that A-Class Metahuman turned to ashes.

Of course, the conditions for using this Forbidden Artifact are a bit harsh. The battle between A-Class experts is ever-changing. If an expert like Shendai Yunhe saw you suddenly take out a lighter, he would definitely not get close to you again.

The third Forbidden Artifact that can sacrifice Metahumans is ACE-015, Jiyun Temple's Wooden Fish.

This thing is a bit evil. It sacrifices corpses in a way of deliverance, and the sacrificed corpse will even float out a soul.

That soul looks painful but has dull eyes, it answers whatever you ask.

It only lasts for five minutes.

The person who analyzed this Forbidden Artifact was a former high monk of Jiyun Temple in the Federation. Jiyun Temple was also once the most popular temple.

Later, after the high monk died and left this Forbidden Artifact, everyone always felt that this thing had no Buddha-nature at all, but was very cruel.

Later, someone discovered hundreds of human skeletons in the underground cave under Jiyun Temple, and there were knife and axe marks on the skeletons...

This incident also led to a climax of anti-clericalism within the Federation, and the Mechanical God Sect was born at that time.

At first, the people simply no longer trusted the monks. Later, some people fueled the flames, wanting to use the Mechanical God Sect to replace the new faith to control the people. In the end, the Conglomerate still benefited.

The last one, Forbidden Artifact ACE-019, Marionette.

These four Forbidden Artifacts can be used to sacrifice Metahumans' corpses.

Three of them are in the hands of the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal. At this time, they encountered another person who could sacrifice Metahumans' corpses, which means that the other party was holding the only "Marionette" that was wandering outside and could sacrifice Metahumans.

This kind of elimination method is very simple...

After thinking, Li Dongze asked: "Then what do you think is going on with Shendai Qianchi?"

San Yue said calmly: "I suspect that Shendai Qianchi has always been carrying Forbidden Artifact ACE-09, "Beyond the Three Realms'."

This Forbidden Artifact is quite interesting. It is itself a string of prayer beads, the Forbidden Artifact analyzed by the first abbot of Jiyun Temple. It has no active ability, but it can exempt all Forbidden Artifact judgments.

For example, if you carry this string of prayer beads called "Beyond the Three Realms', even if you sing to Huntersong every day, the other party will not pay attention to you.

If someone burns you with the best lighter in the village, nothing will happen to you.

If Qing Xing arranges your fate on the spot, your fate will not change because of him.

The magic of this thing lies in this. If Shendai Qianchi was carrying this before his death, then he could escape the judgment of the six-eyed crows.

Li Dongze said: "Beyond the Three Realms has been missing for more than a hundred years, how could it have ended up in the hands of the Shendai Consortium?"

"I don't know," San Yue shook her head. "I once tried to use Forbidden Artifacts to find it, but unfortunately it is exempt from all Forbidden Artifacts, so I can't find it at all."

Beyond the Three Realms is the most suitable Forbidden Artifact for the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal, after all, they have to Face[-] all kinds of strange Forbidden Artifacts.

It's a pity.

"Strange, does someone want to deliberately hide Shendai Qianchi's body? Why?" Li Dongze frowned. "Could it be that the Shendai Consortium has mastered something evil again?"

"This cannot be judged," San Yue shook her head. "I will take Si Yue and the others to the south tomorrow. This time, the six-eyed crows crowed for an exceptionally long time, five eyes are weeping blood, and they won't even eat hawthorn anymore... Another Demi-God is about to fall."

Li Dongze said: "I'll go with you."

"Why?" San Yue asked.

"The Forbidden Artifact Tribunal hasn't been so stable in recent years," Li Dongze said. "You have too many Forbidden Artifacts in your hands, and people will always covet them. Although you are doing things that are beneficial to the world, the Conglomerates will think that as long as they get your Forbidden Artifacts, they can do what you can do. So, from now on, you have to be careful. I'll accompany you this time."

"Can you leave?" San Yue glanced at him. "If you could leave, you would have left long ago."

"It's different," Li Dongze shook his head. "Now the two people arranged by my little Boss are enough to take on the daily management work of the Eternal Society, especially that Zhang Tianzhen. He seems harmless, but he's full of bad ideas. With him and Hu Xiaoniu here, one orthodox and one unorthodox, I can leave."

"Huh," San Yue was stunned for a moment: "Then pack your things, and we'll leave early tomorrow morning. Also, don't wear this outfit when you go to the wilderness, it's very incongruous."

Li Dongze raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you say I look good in this outfit?"

San Yue rolled her eyes: "It also depends on the occasion, okay?"

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...

On the wilderness, a team of trucks transporting frozen meat, a total of 11 vehicles, slowly drove from the north to City 10.

The truck was painted with the words "Northern Shenque Meat Food Supply Group."

This meat supply company is a monopoly, belonging to the Shendai Consortium.

Due to natural environmental factors, they vigorously develop livestock and poultry breeding industries such as cattle and sheep in the north, and then transport the beef and mutton to various cities in the south.

The convoy gradually slowed down as it approached City 10.

There were no abnormalities. The drivers on the truck waited for the border quarantine from the Immigration Bureau, and the transportation permits were also complete.

The official from the Immigration Bureau glanced at the documents. The documents showed that all the goods had been quarantined by City 0, there were no diseased or dead sheep, and each sheep was embedded with an electronic beacon that could track its source.

The bacterial count and various indicators also met the requirements.

The official looked at the captain of the convoy and said casually: "There are no smuggled goods in the car, right? If there are, I suggest you confess it yourself."

As soon as the captain of the convoy heard these words, he immediately pulled the official to a place without surveillance with a smile, and then stuffed a roll of paper money over: "You really have sharp eyes, you can't hide anything from you. I was entrusted to bring a few wild holly falcons to the Big Bosses."

The official did not take the paper money, and still said in a bland tone: "Holly falcons are raptors that are forbidden to be raised in the city, I can't let you pass."

The captain of the convoy quickly took off his watch, which was a famous "Dragon Weaver' brand watch in the Federation, worth more than 300,000.

The official was stunned for a moment, and casually put the watch in his pocket.

He stood in the blind spot of the surveillance and waved to his subordinates from a distance, passing them through.

The gate of the immigration quarantine slowly lifted, and the Metal Storm on the dome also unlocked.

The convoy continued to drive into the city. The captain, who had just been smiling, slowly sank his Face[-], even a little sinister.

His eyes were like those of a hunting hawk, surveying the front of the vehicle.

The captain said in the vehicle communication channel: "On top of the rear vehicles, all goods are to be sent to various locations according to the order."

As he spoke, the vehicle he was in took a turn, not going to the third district, but to the fifth district.

The truck drove into an underground parking garage in the fifth district.

When no one was paying attention, the truck stopped at a manhole for the sewage system.

The vehicle stopped, and the door at the back of the truck opened silently.

The inner wall of the vehicle was covered with radiation-proof scanning barriers, and two men with stern expressions jumped out. They opened the manhole of the sewage system in an orderly manner. As soon as they opened it, they could hear the huge and complex sewer water sound of the city.

The two men looked at each other and lifted a long black wooden box from the truck, walking down the stairs of the manhole into the sewer.

The box was more than a meter long, extremely quiet, and what was loaded inside did not seem to be holly falcons at all.

It... looked more like a coffin.

At the entrance of the sewer manhole, the captain said in a low voice: "There are 1 seconds left, remember, don't look up. Repeat, don't look up."

The two people in the sewer said in a low voice: "Received."

They put the black box in the sewer. One of them took out an injection from his arms, dripped the unknown liquid on the black box, turned around and returned to the ground, and got back into the back of the truck.

The door was closed, and the vehicle drove away quickly.

The two people in the cab and the two people in the cargo box were calm as if nothing had happened.

However, in the sewer, dozens of gray rats were attracted by the unknown smell and began to frantically gnaw at the black wooden box.

The rats used their claws to scratch and their teeth to bite, frantically breaking their teeth without hesitation.

Several tens of minutes later, the wooden box was finally gnawed through by the rats.

Revealing an old and pale palm inside the box.

The palm was only a small part visible in the hole. This black wooden box was like a coffin abandoned in a mass grave, lying in this unknown dark world.

Rotting, fermenting.

...

...

"Let's camp here," Qing Chen suddenly said when he saw a forest.

This was the first camping spot where his master brought him to the wilderness.

Qing Chen looked at Zhang Mengqian. After the pickup truck stopped, the little boy ignored the fatigue on his body and got out of the car to set up temporary simple tents for Qing Chen, Shadow, and Yang Yang.

Qing Chen felt a trance. This scene seemed to have happened yesterday, and he was still in Zhang Mengqian's role.

Shadow looked at Qing Chen: "He has a natural sixth sense, why don't you quickly let him Cultivation? There are very few such talents in the Federation. The two people who have been recorded have all achieved the position of Demi-God. Don't waste such a good material. If you can't teach him, I'll find someone to teach him."

Just because Cultivation itself is a process in which an individual's spiritual will gradually merges with the world.

People who already have a sixth sense before this Cultivation have completed the fusion in advance, and there is huge potential in their bodies waiting to be developed.

Cultivation is a smooth road for this kind of person.

Therefore, Shadow now feels sorry for Qing Chen leaving Zhang Mengqian out in the cold.

However, Qing Chen looked at Zhang Mengqian and shook his head, and said in a low voice to Shadow: "I want him to take another Cultivation path, but he stubbornly insists on taking my path. This child is good in every way, but he's particularly stubborn."

Shadow nodded: "More stubborn than you. The more talented people are, the purer they are. It's a pity, if he doesn't change his mind, no one can help him. The final possibility is that he will waste his life."

However, at this moment, Shadow suddenly leaned back without warning.

Qing Chen quickly supported his back and laid him flat on the ground next to the bonfire.

There was no heartbeat, no breathing.

These symptoms came very suddenly, and even Shadow couldn't prepare in advance.

A shadow shrouded Qing Chen's heart.

Shadow's backlash is getting more and more violent, the frequency is getting higher and higher, and the time is getting longer and longer. In the past, Shadow still had the opportunity to detect it in advance and find a place to lie down.

Now, even Shadow himself doesn't know when the next backlash will come.

Qing Chen sat next to the bonfire, waiting silently, unconsciously using a branch to stir the firewood in the bonfire.

Yang Yang said: "Brother Shadow's Force field is already very weak at this time. Actually... the reason why he wanted to be with you for the last period of time is because you are the only person he can unconditionally trust now."

The time waiting for Shadow to wake up was particularly long. Every minute that passed made Qing Chen feel like he had gone through a day.

Until half an hour later, with a thud, the heartbeat returned.

Shadow slowly sat up and smiled: "Don't worry, I'm fine."

But Qing Chen couldn't smile.

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